STRIVE - Advanced Sensing for intelligent and Resilient Monitoring in Harsh Environments

STRIVE addresses a cross-cutting challenge: the need for robust sensing platforms that can operate reliably in harsh environments while delivering accurate, real-time information on gases, UV radiation, water quality, infrastructure degradation, and sensor health. Across energy assets, water-treatment and distribution systems, and environmental monitoring networks, sensing technologies are often exposed to high temperature, humidity, salinity, dust, UV irradiation, corrosive atmospheres, and complex chemical backgrounds, which degrade performance and limit reliability. To address this, STRIVE develops an integrated materials-to-device sensing platform built around advanced functional materials, microfabrication, reliability engineering, and smart diagnostics. The project centers on Ga2O3 ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductors, 2D layered materials, oxide-2D heterostructures, functionalized carbon nanostructures, and corrosion-resilient sensing interfaces, combined with atomistic modeling, multiscale characterization, and device engineering. These materials are translated into sensing solutions for hazardous gas detection, solar-blind UV photodetection, smart water-quality monitoring, environmental sensor reliability, and electromagnetic/THz-based infrastructure diagnostics. A defining strength of STRIVE is that it goes beyond sensor fabrication alone. It also addresses stability, degradation, qualification, and predictive diagnostics, which are essential for deployment in Qatar-relevant desert, industrial, coastal, and saline conditions. In parallel, the project expands sensing capabilities through THz rectenna concepts, RF/EM corrosion-monitoring approaches, and AI-assisted anomaly detection, enabling new capabilities for non-invasive inspection and infrastructure monitoring. By uniting advanced materials, device platforms, reliability science, and intelligent diagnostics, STRIVE will deliver durable, deployable, and sector-relevant sensing technologies that strengthen worker safety, water-quality assurance, environmental monitoring, and infrastructure resilience.

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)